Title: Stumped

Summary: Companion to # 10, "The Pervert Voice." Tokio doesn't know whether to be flattered or horrified, and Saitou isn't helping matters.

Word Count: 316

She honestly doesn't understand it.

At first, she thought it must be a guy thing and that's why she didn't get it, but when she asked her brother, Akira-kun and Enishi respectively a few very carefully worded, totally-hypothetical-of-course questions on the subject, they couldn't help her. In fact, they all just sent her odd looks and asked her why she was asking, and she decided she 1) really needed to improve her totally-hypothetical-of-course questioning and 2) figure out this little mystery for herself.

She thought once about asking him to explain his strange, embarrassing (for her, naturally) need to quasi-sexually harass her. A second after the thought occurred to her, she whacked her forehead and decided she was a fool—asking that question would only lead to worse things, and she was awkward enough with what he said now. She didn't need to invite anymore.

There's a little part of her, though (very tiny—miniscule, actually—more like minute, really), that maybe sort of kind of might possibly perhaps secretly enjoy the attention. Because occasionally, and especially when he waxes (perverted) poetic about her legs, her blush is half mortification and half pleasure, because he mentions little details that might maybe possibly perhaps mean that he's secretly kind of sort of been paying attention to her, which is both utterly terrifying and completely gratifying.

She'd like to believe he's serious, but the fact that he uses that awful, horrible (strangely sexy—AHEM!) voice makes her doubt that he is. Saitou is hard to read, and she can never tell what's the truth and what's not with him. She gets the feeling he isn't being entirely honest with her, but she doesn't understand why she feels that way.

Then again, she thinks, her cheeks heating as he says something wildly inappropriate in that equally wildly inappropriate voice, perhaps she's better off staying in the dark on this one.